CHAPTER XXI. THE MAHOGANY PERIOD

Chippendale.--Heppelwhite.--Sheraton.--The Adam Brothers.--Characteristics of these and the preceding English periods; Gothic, Elizabethan, Jacobean, William and Mary, Queen Anne.--William Morris.--Pre-Raphaelites.

Furniture.--Landscape paper.--The story of the evolution of wall decoration.

Shown in modern painted furniture.

Architecture and interior decoration become unrelated.--Machine-made furniture.--Victorian cross-stitch, beadwork, wax and linen flowers.--Bristol glass.--Value to-day as notes of variety.

Including "mission" furniture.--Treatment of an unplastered cottage.--Furniture, colour-scheme.

Factory furniture.--Chintz.--The cheapest mirrors.--Floors.--Walls.--Pictures.--Treatment of old floors.